All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.

Russia is bent on world domination.

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.